Salvation Army: Human trafficking on the rise in South Africa
Instances of human trafficking in South Africa have been on the rise over the past three months, according to a new report.
According to the Salvation Army, it has fielded a dozen calls every week.
Some 80% of these relate to human trafficking.
“We believe that many of the calls for help involve people who have been tricked into human trafficking situations because of the difficult economic circumstances which South Africa is experiencing,” says the organisation’s anti-human trafficking coordinator Captain Juanita Wright.
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“We appeal to people to be much more vigilant about human trafficking. It is real and it is happening in our society to people of all ages. If an offer of employment sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
The most vulnerable are children, teenagers, young women, refugees, job seekers, and people living in the streets.
"These people are preyed upon in various ways and are literally tricked into going somewhere with their traffickers, and subsequently held against their will,” says Wright.
